![]() ![]() “In 1977 Ray and several others escaped from Brushy Mountain. He was incarcerated at the Brushy Mountain Penitentiary, which is located on the perimeter of the park,” Furtaw said. “He created this race in part because of the famous prison escape of James Earl Ray, who was the scoundrel who assassinated Martin Luther King. Read More: ‘Frozen Ed’ | The first man to finish the hardest hike in East Tennessee: The Barkley Marathons ![]() ![]() While those trips into the wilderness partly inspired the race, Edwin “Frozen Ed” Furtaw, the first person to ever finish the Barkley, said history helped inspire it as well. Lake and his friend Karl Henn created the race in 1985 after backpacking in Frozen Head. ![]()
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